Sports Betting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In my opinion, anyone who learns that sportsbooks weed out winners and continues to bet is addicted. Or has to acknowledge they're only doing it for entertainment (to lose money).

7:30 Kalshi and Polymarket entered the chat

29:51 - Price of Hope

The part on cat cancer could have been easily avoided. BAD taste at its best. Shameful. And so so sad. ☹

Oh hey Jacquis Neal! Love him on Dropout!

Fliff Coin sounds like a Username back from the 80's ^^

Now with Kalshi, Polymarket, and the like, they are getting around illegal gambling by calling it "trading."
"Trade on Anything" means "Bet on Anything," like... whether or not an American soldier will survive after being shot down in hostile territory...
It's awesome!!
Isn't America just great? Again?

Ben Schwartz!! He’s so goofy I love him!

Soo thats not Betsy Brandt at the end? Damn looks like her.

Glad not to be involved..i suspect that a buddy with a good job but is always broke and depressed is in deep. Going to bring it up nextvtime i see him.

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USA- we have a huge gambling problem so let’s make it legal and advertise 24/7, we have an obesity and heart disease epidemic so let’s advertise cheap highly processed food during every single game in every sport to maintain our ranking as last in overall health among industrialized countries. Our schools rank at the bottom quarter for math and science so let’s get rid of the department of freaking education . Truly and advanced civilization 🙄

I don't know why I'm commenting at all, but damn the cat cancer joke fucking hurts when you've lost a beloved cat that way, very suddenly. I think this came out after and it didn't affect me then, but for some reason now, like a year and a half later, rewatching it the joke felt like a knife in my heart. I know that was not the intent, and I enjoy this show and wouldn't shit on it, but damn. Again, no clue what or if any point this comment has. Just needed to vent I guess. I miss you Alikat. I found her as a stray. We had 5 years as best friends.
Now, in the shows register: Really Jon, you're a little doggy boy? Not up to earning respect? That ego need a good licking? Or are you just a sucker for belly rubs? Cats know they're better, dogs think you're god. Seems like an ego choice to me. (I love and have both cats and dogs :p)

He summed it up nicely "it seems everyone in the sports world has now become compromised by an industry that is able to prey on its most vulnerable customers with incredible precision." It's been a year now since I first saw this and I haven't seen any signs the unbridled corporate greed will be reigned in, or that the NFL will stop trying to profit from addicts.

You win 100K - "it was an obvious error"
You lose 100K "nothing to see here, thanks for your money"

Even if it was actually an error, that's their responsibility and they can definitely afford to pay that one winning guy after getting millions from other gamblers

The GriftKings as at the end was genius.

Screw the celebrities that do these ads.

ben schwartz is such a delight

Sports gambling is bigger and more devastating than most people realize....because most people are women and they have no idea what their husbands and boyfriends are REALLY losing.

"Not a fan of the show, just concerned."

29:10 SONIC IS THAT U 👁️👁️

A human vice that has become legal, and people wonder if there is a problem. Duh!😅😂
Consider the fact that sports betting is legal and prostitution isn't. Organized religion and conservatives have fought to reverse a woman's right to an abortion, which is the ultimate American oxymoron of a world we live in today.
The rise in suicides, followed by the reduced birth rates in America, will become a byproduct of America's future.😢

Please revisit this topic in light of what is happening with betting on world events in Polymarket and Kalshi.

Sports betting is a dirty business that preys on addicts, and every celebrity who promotes them should be socially banned

Fucking sports betting ruined my life, my wife's and most especially, my kids lives. Ive tried to commit suicide a few times!! I wish i never knew about any of this dangerous and very very harmful vice. Lost everything not only what ive worked for for 20 years but also my wife's.

Okay I literally just saw an ad about betting on the weather. The guy literally said you know how it's supposed to rain all week. I just made $50 off of that. You can now bet on the weather. Immediately thought of this video, and I had to come here, and comment this immediately.

Wait till this nerd finds out about Kalshi

"Parlay"? Fuck sake. I'm assuming the marketers in the states though 'Accumulator' would be too hard a word for the yanks 🤦‍♂

My ex was older than me with natural gray hair and people thought he was my dad. My dad has dark brown hair and people think he’s my boyfriend 😭

Supreme Court members needs to be investigated!! They were paid and /or bribed.

My son works for a company that approves people for certain online sports betting companies. He can’t give specifics but he says: “Dad, these people should definitely not be betting”.

how can john oliver, the future voice actor for an animated, loveable but snooty, rule-abiding longhair cat, imply that cats maybe deserve cancer?

The fact I got an Underdog ad during this is ironic

my god, what happened to the baileys? where did eileen go!!

Lol cuz that's what professional sports need is more f@$$ing money.
Capitalism is a cesspit of despair bound for self destruction

I can totally see John Ralphio pushing griftking

I have a hard time feeling bad for gamblers. As a matter of fact I get a sick kick watching some idiot put everything they have into a machine and lose everything. Our family businesses got gambled away. Our house got gambled away. I grew up so much worse than I had to because of selfish assholes who only think of themselves and they don't care you they drag down with them. They are Evil motherf**kers if you think about it.

7:31 polymarket be like

Are they allowed to just repeat another news channel segment word for word

There i was.. Whipping out fliff like a Sultan..

And then there is pete rose...

My girlfriend and I just made a bunch of money at a Casino, I don't get it, it's less fun, and more expensive than video arcade, plus you win stuff at an arcade too, plus you feel like you accomplished something. Im never gambling again and say that as someone who won.

1:13 But...doesn't Ceasar get stabbed repeatedly after being betrayed by the support system he thought that he had? Seems like an apt metaphor.

The ad immediately upon completing this video was an ad for prize picks.

please please please cover prediction market next 🙏

So hype to randomly see Ben and Jacquis on LWT! Maybe someday John can do a wild Dropout collab of some kind idk